DOK Panel: how to work with international funds?

Featuring some of DOK Leipzig's most charming international guests, this lively discussion will pull back the curtain on their processes, revealing all you need to know about their application process and selection criteria, the support they offer, to the advantages and drawbacks of working with new partners...

Looking at the Asian Documentary means entering a universe of diverse traditions of storytelling, film making, visual aesthetics and cultural backgrounds. There is a rich experience of documentary production and distribution in Asia. But up until recently documentary film was still lacking in infrastructure in many countries...

Parallel to this year’s retrospective, “STORM! A Journey in Eight Mass Movements Through the Short 20th Century”, this panel looks at the questions of which resistance movements find their way into the collective memory (and which don’t), how memory is constructed and what role the visual plays, as well as what the difference between document and documentary is, who is speaking, to whom and – cui bono?

For the past 17 years, DOK Leipzig hasbeen closely following developments in animated documentary filmmaking andconsistently presenting innovative ideas and projects in this area intended to feedinterest in the combination of different techniques and genres. This year's panel on Animadoc film for the first time takes thestep toward cross-media...

Most of us only know the clichés about the largest country in Latin America: football, Carnival, samba and caipirinha. Despite the country's long and varied cinematic tradition, only a little, if any, of its cinematic output makes it to Europe. DOK Leipzig wants to change that and is dedicating a special programme to the country, consisting of 10 films by predominantly young directors...